Author guide
Eliot Schrefer Books in Order
Eliot Schrefer is an American and British author whose work spans adult fiction, young adult novels, middle-grade fiction, picture books, and nonfiction. His books include the Ape Quartet, The Lost Rainforest series, The Darkness Outside Us duology, and Queer Ducks (and Other Animals). Endangered and Threatened were finalists for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. He has also written the SAT guide Hack the SAT and co-authored the Fatal Glitch: Camp Zero middle-grade series.
Eliot Schrefer's Newest Book
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Endangered
The first book in the completed Ape Quartet and a representative entry point to Schrefer's conservation fiction.
The Darkness Outside Us
A strong entry point for his queer science fiction.
Glamorous Disasters
His debut adult novel and the best starting point for his adult fiction.
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
A representative entry point to his accessible animal-focused nonfiction.
Read in order
Books by series
novel series · complete
Ape Quartet
A completed quartet of survival novels pairing young protagonists with bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas.
novel series · complete
The Lost Rainforest
A completed middle-grade fantasy trilogy set in the divided animal world of Caldera.
multi-author novel series · complete
Spirit Animals
A multi-author middle-grade fantasy series set in Erdas.
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Rise and FallAmazon ↗Book 6 · novel · 2015
multi-author novel series · complete
Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts
A multi-author continuation of Spirit Animals.
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Immortal GuardiansAmazon ↗Book 1 · novel · 2015
novel series · ongoing
The Animal Rescue Agency
A middle-grade series about an interspecies rescue team led by a fox and a rooster.
novel series · complete
The Darkness Outside Us
A completed science-fiction duology about love, identity, and survival across interstellar space.
multi-author chapter-book series · ongoing
The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class
An ongoing multi-author chapter-book series in which each book follows a different child in the same third-grade class.
- 5 Wyatt Hill's Best Friend Is a LizardAmazon ↗
Book 5 · chapter-book · 2025
multi-author novel series · ongoing
Fatal Glitch
An ongoing middle-grade horror series co-authored with Erin Entrada Kelly about technology gone wrong.
- 1 Fatal Glitch: Camp ZeroAmazon ↗
Book 1 · novel · 2026
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (9)
- Glamorous DisastersAmazon ↗
novel · 2006
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The New KidAmazon ↗novel · 2007
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Hack the SAT: Strategies and Sneaky Shortcuts That Can Raise Your Score Hundreds of PointsAmazon ↗nonfiction · 2008
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The School for Dangerous GirlsAmazon ↗novel · 2009
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The Deadly SisterAmazon ↗novel · 2010
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Geek Fantasy NovelAmazon ↗novel · 2011
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The Popper Penguin RescueAmazon ↗novel · 2020
- Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal SexualityAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2022
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Charming Young ManAmazon ↗novel · 2023
Children's books (1)
- Lulu and the OthersAmazon ↗
picture-book · 2026